Supply List - Oil painting - 2011

Roberta Buckles
 
CONCEPT:  Come to first day of class with some ideas of what you are interested in painting.  With class discussion, you may decide to alter your plans, but come with ideas anyway to start the ball rolling.  Ideas, photo images, etc will be helpful.
If you have a painting in progress, bring it as well.
Besides buying canvases (smaller ones for project/investigations), you can buy 2  large 300lb watercolor paper. Fold and tear them into 4 pieces.  Take acrylic gesso and put at least 3 coats on each side.  You can use a wide (3” wide brush or more) or use tight foam paint rollers for an even application.  These will give you something to work on without making it too precious.
•    OIL PAINTS: Brand preferences : Winsor & Newton, Gamblin, Grumbacher Pretested, Maimeri, Old Holland.  Do not buy Grumbacher Academy Brand, Van Gogh or Rembrandt brands.  (These brands tend to have less pigment and make for strange color mixing.)  Do not buy watersoluble oil paints! DO NOT buy anything with Hue or Barium in the color name!
                                               
Winsor Newton preferred for the following colors: – Medium size tubes (37 – 40 ml size tubes) –
•    Lemon or Azo Yellow
•             Cadmium Yellow Light
•             Cadmium Yellow
•             Cadmium Orange
•             Cadmium Red Light
•             Cadmium Red
•        Permanent Rose
•           Permanent Alizarin Crimson
•           Winsor Violet or Dioxazine Purple
•            (French) Ultramarine Blue
•             Pthalo Blue
•             Pthalo Green
•            Sap Green
•            Viridian Green
•            Yellow Ochre
•    Paynes Grey
•    Naples Yellow
Winton (student grade from Winsor Newton) for the following color:
•    Burnt Sienna
•    Raw Umber
•    Ivory Black
•    LARGE tube of Titanium White
 
BRUSHES– Brands preferred: Princeton series 5100, Signet by Robert Simmons, Strathmore Natural Hog Bristle, Wilton by Winsor & Newton, Winsor & Newton Rathbone Supreme Bristle Brushes, Raphael best quality, Series 30 by Daniel Smith. 
NOTE: Really cheap brushes will lose their bristles on the painting.  Buying small synthetic brushes or brushes not appropriate for oil painting will work against you when applying paint. Also, you can purchase more if you wish.
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Brights: (natural hog hair) –Buy  two (2) each of the following:
 
•    Two each of size 2, 4, 6, 8 , 10 and a Fan brush
Filberts: (natural sable or mongoose) 
•    one size 10
Round: (synthetic)
•    One small (2/3 diameter of a pencil) Silverbrush #2R
 
Other Important Supplies:
•    Larger color wheel
•    Value Finder/ Grey scale
•    Notebook for notes and handouts
•    Ultra fine tip Sharpie permanent ink black magic marker
•    HB pencils
•    24” Ruler
•    Odorless Turpenoid – medium size /1 quart blue/white can (NOT Green), or you can buy Gamsol or Low odor Mineral spirits 
•    Original Liquin –Winsor and Newton 2.5 oz bottle or larger
•    Palette knives  - two metal. These sizes are all okay  #22, 13, or 11. The neck    should not be flat from handle.  The head should come to a soft rounded point,.
•    Paper pad palette (Disposable) –Canson or Strathmore 12”x16” rectangular pad of wax like paper.  (Avoid ones with cut out holes or are circular.)  This size is important to fit into a plastic palette holder. (see  next)               
•    Artist’s Palette Holder – 12”x16” rectangular plastic box with red or blue plastic seal top
•    Can to hold brushes – Tall can is better
•    Artist box, etc for paints, etc
•    Stretched, Pre-Gessoed Canvases – (Staples on the back, not sides!) – Sizes: two of 18”x24” (Fredrix brand or other similar).  If you have a painting in progress, bring it in. I will be introducing larger sizes (30” x 40” stretched canvas and larger, panels, etc in class. After the first class you can then get the appropriate canvas or support you desire. Buy a few small canvases to get started (11” x 14”) for exploration.
•    Acrylic Gesso  - one quart Liquitex, Golden, Winsor and Newton brands
•    Liquid (low viscosity) acrylic paint – burnt sienna – (Golden brand or Liquitex)
•    Scott SHOP towels - Blue thick auto mechanic paper towels on a roll (at most hardware stores, Target, etc.)
•    Holders for medium or to store used paint till next time - plastic film canisters
•    Solvent Jar – Glass jar with a metal coil inside.  For holding solvent  (Turpenoid, spirits). An alterative is a double metal cup holder for mediums ( without caps)
•    Latex or vinyl gloves (keeps toxic chemicals in paints, solvents off hands)
•    Painters smock or old shirt
•    Sharp scissors
•    Straight edge
•    Slide without the film in it
•    Ivory or Dawn liquid detergent
•    Sketch pad 8” x 10” or larger
 
Optional but very useful:
•    General Pencil Brand of brush cleaner soap (soap in beige opaque jar)
•    Sargent’s plastic caddy (6 count) tray (prevents waste of paint, mediums.)
For stretching your own canvas  (only if you want to):
•    Rubber mallet
•    Stretcher bars- two 16” bars,  two 20” bars
•    Wood Keys – 4 (small pieces of wood for your canvas stretchers. 
•    Canvas – Natural, unbleached type with NO water resistant coating, 3 yards long and at least 48” wide.  (Less expensive at fabric stores, than at art suppliers.)
•    Canvas stretcher Pliers
•    Staple gun –Heavy duty, Arrow brand is good
•    Staples – size T-50